Introduction
 The Library's Department of Special Collections and University
Archives (SCUA) serves as the principal location for the historical
research collections at California State University, Sacramento. The
primary strengths of the collection are post-World War II political,
social, and environmental history of the Sacramento region and the
history of the California State University, Sacramento, since its
founding in 1947. The Department's holdings include printed books,
manuscripts, and university archives. Subject collections are comprised
of both published and unpublished sources and include the Japanese
American Archival Collection (JAAC), the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection
of rare books and manuscripts, and the Magnus Hirschfeld Collection of
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transexual History. The department holdings
include formats such as oral history transcripts, photographs, posters,
broadsides, audiovisual materials, microforms, prints, paintings and
other ephemera.
The SCUA collections and services support
teaching, learning, and research. The Department provides assistance to
the academic faculty in the use of primary source materials for
teaching. SCUA also offers internships to graduate students seeking
opportunities to learn archival methods.
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